BYU is tired of Will Clyburn.

In the first half alone, Clyburn scored an impressive 22 points on only 10 shots. He hit four of his five 3-pointers and made four of his five free throws.

Clyburn cooled off in the second half, making only two of his six shots. However, he still finished with a career-high 32 points, five rebounds, two blocks and two steals in the 83-62 win against BYU.

“Will was terrific,” said BYU coach Dave Rose. “The one thing that he’s really good at is he’s never in a hurry. He just plays at a great pace with great confidence and he was on tonight.”

When Clyburn was at Utah, he played against BYU twice. In his first meeting on Jan. 11, he scored 23 points while grabbing four rebounds and shot 7-16 from the field. A month later at BYU, Clyburn scored another 18 points.

In his three career games against BYU, Clyburn has an average of 24.7 points per game.

“[Clyburn] had a special game,” Hoiberg said. “We ran some different actions to try and get him going. We felt that [Clyburn] could go out there and really attack. I thought that was a big step he took in the last game against UNLV, was to the basket and making good decisions when he got in there.”

Percy Gibson played a season-high 27 minutes in relief for Anthony Booker, who was in foul trouble early in both halves.

Gibson finished with seven points and seven rebounds, but his biggest contribution was on the defensive end as he was charged with the task of guarding the All-WCC post Brandon Davies. Davies came into the game averaging almost 19 points and eight rebounds per game.

Davies did finish with 20 points, but they came on a game-high 17 shot attempts.

“[Gibson] was great — he really did a good job building a wall against Davies and Davies is going to be as good as a post player as we play against all year,” Hoiberg said. “He is an absolute load in there. To go out there and do the job that he did, 27 minutes against a very good post player shows the growth of Percy Gibson.”

Chris Babb showcased his defensive ability Saturday afternoon as well, tasked with guarding the WCC’s top scorer in Tyler Haws, who came in averaging 22.6 points per game.

Babb chased Haws all over the floor, holding him to his season-low nine points, making only four of 13 shots and forcing five turnovers.

“We had a chance to watch a lot of film on him and we felt very prepared going into this game,” Babb said. “We just wanted him to make him catch it a little bit farther out than he wants to and contest all of his shots.”

After two losses to ranked opponents the previous weekend and a tough week of practice, Hoiberg said he was pleased with what he saw from his team today, in all aspects of the game, including what Hoiberg called the “hustle plays.”

“We executed our game plan very well today,” Hoiberg said. “That’s something that you always want your team to do. We really got after them this week and they responded. I’m really proud of these guys after today’s effort.”